Recoil-loading rifle.



G. JOH

BEGOIL` APPLIOATIO LOADING RIFL N FILED SEPT. 2,

Patented Dec. 22, 1914.,

muhlw Il ATTURNEV.

PATENT OFFICE..

sones JOHN, .or WHEELING, wEs'r 'vInGINI-A.

" ancora-nonnina minar.;

. i .Specification of'Letters Patent.

To all whom it mayI concern: l i l Beit known that I, GEORGE` J o nNfarsubf ject ofthe Sultan of',v Turkey,'and resident of \Vheeling,'county`of Ohio, and State of- West Virginia, have invented 'certaln new and useful Improvements in Recoil-Loading Rifles, of which the following is a specili- 'arms, and 4'specically to a rifle ofthe magainvention resides inthe featuresfof construcnon, .arrangement o'f partsand combinanonii of elements which. ,willl here1na-fter be eX- emplied, reference bein'g'herein had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of ,-1.

" rear end ofthe loading chamber. Fixed on this speni'cation, in which- Figure 1 is a top plan view of la riie emf` bodying my invention; Fig. 2 isa side-'ele' vation of the same; Fig. 5S-is an enlarged top plan view of the operating parts with' the top, cover plate removed; Fig. 4 isa longitudinal section; Fig. 5 is a similar section of the breechmechanism, enlarged,

' taken on the line 5-f5, Fig. 3; and Fig. 6

is a similar section taken. o n the line 6 6,-

Fig. 3.'

Referring 'to designating characters' distinguish like parts throughout'the several views--l indicates" the `barrel and 2 the stock, the latter having removably mounted therein a metallic casing 3 constituting a magazine adapted for containing a relatively .large number of car.,`

tridges 4,' the latter being received therein inV positions inclined with respect' to said'zmag; '.azine casing and in parallel alinement wit the bore in the' barrel. A coil spring 5 is located'within saidvcasing and exerts a constant pressure 'against a movable beveled seat 6 by means "ofgwhich said cartridges areadvanced. i

Mounted to pirate between suitamg said drawings, in which like A guides 7 fixed in position-at opposite sides of the loading chamber 11', so'. 4as to be slidable longitudinally in line with the bore in the'barrel is a breech-piece 8 having an up.

wardly directed integral extension' 8a onthe. 1';

top thereof in whichis loosely mounted the front end of a stationary bolt or stem 9 Y ratentanec. 22, 1914.

which'lies parallel to saidguide-piece 7 and has its rear end seated in a plate 1 0 mounted..

upon the top of the stock adjacent to the rear end of said loading chamber 11.

coil spring l2 encircling said stem 9 has its.

-rearend seated against said plate 10 and l 2 its front end. seated against said extension 8a and lacts to normally maintain saidy .1.'

Y within said bore 13- is the front end o f a firing-pin .14 the rear end of which lies w1thin a socket 15 provided in the' stock at the rojecting',

extending bore 13 which -alines centrallywith. the bore in the barrel, and slid'able v saidiiring-pin at a suitable point is a collar A 16, having at one side-thereof' a laterally directed arm 17, and interposed between said collar and the inner endof said socket and in encircling relation to said firing-pin is acoil spring 1,8 adapted for normally holding said fringpin in a forwardly thrust position.. said. 'pinis forced back 'interlocks -with the rear. end of a bar 19 which is supported by, and has rocking movement on,"a vertically-disposed headed pin or pivot 20 at a point intermediate its against the tension' of said spring, as shown. in Figs. 4 and .5, said arms 17`engages and ends.` A small coil spring 21 seated beneath tains the saidrear-end Aelevated in bar-engaging position, v.as shown in Figs. 3, 5 and 6. vThe trigger 22 is pivoted intermediate its ends, as shown in Fig. 6, and has pivotally. connected to its upper 'end the lower end of 123 the opposite end lof which underliesfthe front-.end 'of pivot'ed bar 19, said bar 23 said rear endl of thev bar 19 normally mainan upwardly and forwardly inclined bar.

being adapted,when the trigger 22 is drawn,

`.1. to elevate thefro'nt end of-bar 19, causing` the next cartridge which has, 'in the inter- 'Y tridge follows the movement-'of' the breechpiece with the recoil of the gun, and' is by frhe.- recoil produced by theiring of 'a l cartridge"v thrusts'the -breech-piece 8 rearward lagainst the stock at the rear end of ing-pin'let. that the trigger 22 has been released, the laterally extending Y' 15 ann 17 'again interlocks with thev end -of bar19, and, actuated by the spring 12, said breech-pieceis returned' to its normal 4:for- 'wardlythrustaposition. If, however, the

pin is' immediately re-a vanced for firing val between-the rearward movement of the breech-piece, dueto the recoil, as aforesaid,

and the return of thel breech-piece, been adf vjanced into iring'pos'ition. The empty cartheforce. of the back-'acting 'air thrust lat' `erally outward through an opening 24. proing being the 'onlyoutlet through which saidvforce-may be relieved, or permitted to' -piece has been coi1,fsai1d foremost cartridge is elevated to a'po'sition directly' in front of lthe 'breech'- piece, and, 'whenthe 'latterreturns to normal position, i's thereby advanced -intoifiring po'sitionin the .bore o'f the barrel.' A rein .overlying relation to the loa ber, as shown.l Havingths describedmy'invention, what me' ehemthe loading chamber,` carrying therewith, against fthe tension of its'spring 18, the r- .bore formed in'- the breech.

trigger ish'eldin-'drawn osition, the firing.

vided in one of the' face plates 25, sai'd openmovable cover-plate 26 is suitabtlly.''mountedA guides formed inthe chamber,. aP breech Y piece engaging said' guides and `reciprocal in said chamber, an extension'fo'rmed upon the upperV surface of theV breechpiece, a

a' plate mounted onthe stock, 'a stem' having Aits rear end xed'to the plate and its forward end slidably .engaged with said ex. tension, a coil tspring encircling 'the stem, andA .having its respectivefends `bearing against the plate extension to hold the breech piece thrust 'yieldably forward, a` A ieee, a socket formed in the stock 'andiv almed with said bore, "a-ing pin having one end supportedl by and slidab y engaged in the socket and its'other end similarl engaged in said bore,

a collar fixed to'the circling one end 'of the stemand retractible in the socket, an arm fixed tothe collar, a bar'pivotally supported in the loading chamber the `rear end -of which is adapted engage `said .arm to hold the firing pin inoperative, a trigger bar slidably engaging" the 'forward end of said bar to rock the same, thereby freeing the arm to ing pin, a spring enpermit the Vfiring in' to move to its firing' position, sai

upon the" explosion of a cartridge, the recoil'imp'arted to said breechpleceiserving to rock the bar so. that said -arm interlocks l lbreech piece being K moved rearwardlygin the'loading chamber escape. The spring' 5 maintains'lthef cartridges in the .magazine casng'in la for-- wardlythrust position-with the foremost a thereof directly underlyin the breech-piece -8;`-'a1 1'd, when-'said breec thrust rearward under the action of the re'- aoy of twosubscribing wit- 

